Tina Smith: “Federal law says that you cannot use federal funding to…”

“That's right. And people, they're still p out that story even though it is completely debunked. You know, Federal law says that you cannot use federal funding to provide health insurance to people who don't have documents. who are here illegally. And so it's just, again, it's just they're falling back on this nonsense because they know that they are losing the argument with their base voters who are looking at their health care costs going up and can't afford it.” (23:21–23:29)

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